Category Archives: Canadian Press
Sacramento police unveil body cam policy after protests
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sacramento police have issued their first written policy on when officers can turn off body cameras after two officers muted their microphones following the fatal shooting of an u...
Apr 11, 2018
Patriots owner calls for reform after Meek Mill prison visit
PHILADELPHIA - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is calling for reform of the criminal justice system after visiting rapper Meek Mill in a Pennsylvania prison. Kraft and Philadelphia 76ers co-ow...
Apr 11, 2018
5 years on, marathon bomb survivors inspire medical advances
BOSTON - In the five years since the Boston Marathon bombing, medical science has made promising advances in amputations and artificial limbs, in part because of lessons learned from the victims and r...
Apr 11, 2018
Trump signs executive order pushing work for welfare
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that aims to add and strengthen work requirements for public assistance and other welfare programs. The order, signed in private, ...
Apr 11, 2018
As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle
KFAR SABA, Israel - While most of his fellow Jews were being killed or brutalized in Nazi death camps and ghettos, Baruch Shub and his friends were hiding in the forests of the former Soviet Union, tr...
Apr 11, 2018
Indonesia alcohol deaths exceed 100 as police vow crackdown
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Deaths from drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in Indonesia have surpassed 100 this month, police said Wednesday as they vowed a “scorched earth” crackdown on the makers a...
Apr 11, 2018
Sherpa guide tries to reach top of the world for 22nd time
KATHMANDU, Nepal - Three men have climbed to the top of the world 21 times, all of them mountain guides who grew up in the shadow of Mount Everest. Two of these famed Sherpa guides have retired. But 4...
Apr 11, 2018
Report: Missouri Gov. Greitens initiated unwanted sex acts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens initiated a physically aggressive unwanted sexual encounter with his hairdresser and threatened to distribute a partially nude photo of her if she spo...
Apr 11, 2018
Judges weigh scope of Trump sanctuary cities order
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday scrutinized whether President Donald Trump’s executive order to withhold funding from so-called “sanctuary cities” threatened hun...
Apr 11, 2018
Xi vs Trump: Who has the better hand in potential trade war?
BEIJING - The brewing China-U.S. trade conflict features two leaders who’ve expressed friendship but are equally determined to pursue their nation’s interests and their own political agend...
Apr 11, 2018